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“Holy shit, that’s fast.”

About a week ago someone finally noticed the 18 year old vestigial PHP apps that were sitting in my shared hosting server and decided to turn icanthaszheezburger into a zombie site.

I gave a talk last year at XO Ruby about how it’s felt like the vibes have been off in tech for some time.

The TRMNL is this cool programmable eInk screen that is connected to Wi-Fi and can display pretty much anything you like (and there are tons of fun things it can display thanks to a big ecosystem of plugins).

I’ve made a brand new theme!

My friend runs a shop that sells and repairs mowers and other small engine equipment.

Note: this is about 2025 for my life specifically.

2025 is the year display makers finally put out a bunch of 32″ 6K displays, and the best one is from a Chinese brand you probably have never heard of.

Cars are in a rough place right now, especially EVs.

Tech leaders are trotting out the “We’ll use AI to reduce headcount in the next 2 years” talking point again.

On the eve of WWDC 2025, there’s a lot the Apple enthusiast community is downtrodden about.

My Q5 has been sitting in the shop for about a month now waiting for a part from Germany and I’ve been driving a loaner Q4 from my local dealer.

Almost a year ago I lamented that since macOS Sonoma was released, the Messages app suffered a serious performance regression with text input.

Disclosure: The company I work for is very heavily invested in generative AI, specifically developer tools.

I take a pause at the end of each year to reflect.

I was depressed by the US election results this year, but initially I was just kind of surprised at the results.

Hot off the presses the week while the US celebrated Thanksgiving, we’ve got a new report that a Stanford researcher has found that as much as 10% of software engineers may be “ghost engineers” who are allegedly around 10% as productive as the median engi…

In the summer of 2020, like a ton of people, I ordered en e-bike.

The Supreme Court issued a bunch of disappointing rulings this past week (and might well be slated to issue another one Monday morning).

You don’t need me to explain to you that Vision Pro is a flop.

As Apple released its latest batch of iPad Pros, the reviews were a familiar refrain: “the hardware is awesome but held back by iPadOS.”

Owing to a recent crusade of mine to start dispensing opinions to companies who may or may not want want them, I found myself corresponding earlier this week with a software company that’s turning an app I love from being a document-based app that saves g…

tl;dr: This adapter is solid, and if you have a wired CarPlay car that you want to make wireless, you’ll be happy with this.

As I’ve been using Vision Pro and figuring out its strengths and shortcomings, I find myself trying to understand its place in the world once it evolves.

Apple has been really clear in their messaging that this isn’t an AR headset or a VR headset; it’s a “spatial computing” device.

When I saw Apple demoing a feature where you can broadcast a virtual version of your Mac’s display into the Vision Pro, it put Vision Pro from being a “eh, we’ll see” to “I’m definitely getting up at 5am to order this”.

Last summer when select members of the tech press got brief demos with the Vision Pro, the reviewers’ impressions really oversold the experience of the passthrough video.

When the review embargo got lifted earlier this week, my eyes were glued to screens, watching people’s impressions and getting a better understanding of the nature of Vision Pro.

macOS Sonoma has had a bug since its release.

A couple weeks ago, many parts of the US experienced a spurt of winter weather, and one of the side effects of this was that a lot of electric car owners in cities faced some obstacles.

If Facebook’s algorithms recognize you as anything like me, you’ve likely seen these ads for Sidio’s colorful looking milk crates that make it look like everything you might want to store can look way cooler than it actually is.

Because I contain multitudes, I am both kind of bearish on the Vision Pro’s likelihood to really get traction as a product, but I did get up around 4:30am this morning (edit: yesterday morning; I was tired last night and didn’t get to posting this) and ma…

On the face of it, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Rabbit’s R1 device is quite different from Humane’s AI pin.

We’re addicted to perpetual growth, and the addiction is quite literally destroying the world.

Just a couple of things you may have noticed: I switched to a different theme that I thought looked kind of fun.

Vision Pro is coming soon; perhaps even in the next month or so!

At the end of last year I was reflecting on people I was thankful for in my life, and one of the people I reached out to was my buddy Scott, a fellow enthusiast of retro games.

First off, for the hopeless pedantics among you, let’s get this out of the way: yes, I am aware of the definition of “algorithm,” and I realize that literally any arrangement of feed items into a feed is algorithmic, even a chronological feed.

There’s been an increasing tension around the exclusivity of Apple’s iMessage product, and it feels like that tension has hit a peak over the last month or so.

Earlier this year I was on Mastodon, opining casually on Apple being so tight-lipped about their strategy with their highest-end pro Macs, and suggesting that Apple just speak openly about the long term plans because there isn’t really much of an Osbourne…

2023 was a relatively quiet year for icanthascheezburger.

As it turns out, “scary fast” was referring to the fact that the event itself was contained to a tight 30 minutes.

About a year ago, I laid out some ideas for how Elon Musk could take a company like Twitter, which he recently acquired, and turn it into something that makes money and retains its value.

Ozempic’s been getting a ton of attention in the media over the last year or so.

I’ve been using ZSA’s new Voyager keyboard for a few weeks now.

Overall, I really enjoyed this WWDC keynote, and it feels like one that belongs to the ages (after all, it’s not every WWDC that gets a brand new platform announced).

On the eve of WWDC I’m going to share my hottest of takes: there’s a decent chance that Apple’s VR headset ends up being a product that Apple tries but will ultimately exit the market.

In the “free idea for Apple” spirit of my SwiftScript post from awhile back, I want to share a vision for the kind of AI-powered product Apple could incorporate into macOS and iOS: Spotlight Bionic.

Everyone’s busy thinking about Apple’s upcoming VR headset, but I’m more interested in a product Apple has publicly stated is coming: the Apple Silicon Mac Pro.

Tech has this long-running tendency to lack restraint, and although this manifests in a lot of ways, one prominent way you can see this is with the continuous parade of half-baked products we constantly bear witness to.